Annotation:Mona's Delight

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MONA'S DELIGHT (Eunysagh Vona/Eunyssagh Vona). AKA and see "Miss Lacey's Hornpipe." English, Reel. England, Isle of Mann. A Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. This eight-hand reel tune, from the Isle of Mann, has an associated dance which features an unusual step approximately R-L-R, then clunking the inside of one foot against another. Since the dance was sometimes performed in clogs, this could be quite audible. The tune was collected by Mona Douglas (1898-1987), a well-known Manx dance teacher, who says she collected it "from Manx fisherman and country-folk." It is published in her Five Manx Folk Dances (1936). However, the melody was not titled for her (the name 'Mona' only being a coincidence), as it appears as "Mona's Delight" set as a hornpipe in the Clague manuscript, which predates Douglas's collecting.

The tune is derived from an older in English dance repertoire, Playford's "Goddess" (later "Goddesses").

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Carlin (Master Collection of Dance Music for the Violin), 1984; No. 24, p. 25.

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